--- a/src/of-miscellaneous-3-dev-fixes.patch	Wed Jan 02 10:04:32 2019 -0500
+++ b/src/of-miscellaneous-3-dev-fixes.patch	Thu Jan 03 08:41:41 2019 -0500
@@ -10,3 +10,36 @@
    if (isempty (fpath))
      error ("units: %s\nVerify that GNU units is installed in the current path.",
             rawoutput);
+diff -ur miscellaneous-1.2.1.orig/src/partint.cc miscellaneous-1.2.1/src/partint.cc
+--- miscellaneous-1.2.1.orig/src/partint.cc	2019-01-02 12:13:28.286461534 -0500
++++ miscellaneous-1.2.1/src/partint.cc	2019-01-02 12:14:43.200262618 -0500
+@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
+         error("partcnt accepts exactly one argument");
+         return r; 
+     }
+-    if ( ! args(0).is_numeric_type()) {
++    if ( ! args(0).isnumeric()) {
+         error("partcnt only accepts a numeric argument");
+         return r;
+     }
+@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
+     int nargin = args.length ();
+     if (nargin != 1 || 
+         ! args(0).is_scalar_type() ||
+-        ! args(0).is_numeric_type()
++        ! args(0).isnumeric()
+         ) {
+         error("partint only accepts one scalar positive integer argument");
+         return r;
+diff -ur miscellaneous-1.2.1.orig/src/sample.cc miscellaneous-1.2.1/src/sample.cc
+--- miscellaneous-1.2.1.orig/src/sample.cc	2019-01-02 12:18:26.373626834 -0500
++++ miscellaneous-1.2.1/src/sample.cc	2019-01-02 12:19:15.234801067 -0500
+@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
+ 	/* as in the code from "Programming Pearls" */
+ 	IntSetBins2 S(m, n);
+ 	while (S.size() < m)
+-		S.insert(floor(oct_randu()*n)); // use Octave's uniform RNG
++		S.insert(floor(octave::rand_uniform<double> ()*n)); // use Octave's uniform RNG
+ 	S.report(s.fortran_vec());
+ 	return octave_value (s);
+ }